Brooch



Jan. 17, 1933. Q HEYMAN 1,894,686

BROOCH Filed- Aug. 6. 1930 @am lllVNTOR Patented Jan. 17, 1933 UNITEDSTATES OSCAR r or NEW Yonx, N. Y.

BROOCH Application led August 6, 1930. Serial No. 473,306.

This invention relates to brooches, and in particular to improvements inconvertible rooches.

The common type of brooch comprises a e body member, usually jeweled orotherwise decorated, provided on its reverse or under side with a pin bymeans of which the brooch is secured to the clothing of the wearer.Brooches of this type have been made and l worn from time immemorial.

There is another type of brooch which has of late attained considerablevogue and which is generally referred to as a clip brooch. This broochcomprises a decorated body member, butinstead o the pin of the commonbrooch, is provided on its reverse side with a spring-pressed clampingmember or jaw which cooperates with the body member to grip a section ofthe wearers clothing. Such a brooch may be snapped over the hem of agown at the throat or shoulder for purely decorative purposes, used forgathering the bertha of a dress, to secure a scarf, or employed indivers ways which need not here be enumerated.

Attempts have been made to make a convertible brooch, one in which twoclip brooches may be assembled and used as a single pin brooch and thendisassembled and 3@ used separately. (By this means ownership of threebrooches can be acquired for the price oiE two-a consideration o someimportance when expensive jewelry is involved.) Thus two clip broochesare placed together, end to end and held so by means of a plate, orother connecting member extending across their under sides and screwedin place. This plate being provided with a pin converts the two clipbrooches, their clamping i0 members temporarily inoperative, into acommon ordinary pin brooch-that is to say, after a fashion.

Doubtless after the connecting plate is screwed onto the clip brooches asingle brooch results, but the modus operandi is not satisfactory. Thelittle screws get lost. The operation is laborious and does not commenditsel to those who wear brooches. Then too such a combination brooch islikely to be 5@ clumsy.

In accordance with the present invention I have provided a pair of clipbrooches and means for quickly and easily joining them to form a singlepin brooch. The operation, both of assembling and disassembling can beperformed in a twinkling by any one. No screws are required and' thecombination brooch is neat, strong and handsome. At the same time I haveeliminated the separate s rings commonly' used in connection with 60 eclamping members of the clip brooch unit-s and have greatly improved theappearance and efficiency thereof.

The improved clip brooch of my invention comprises a body on which ispivotally e5 mounted a resilient clamp, preferably U- shaped. The endsof this clamp are provided with opposed journal pins supported withinspaced bearings on the body. The bearings and clamp ends are providedwith coacting cam faces so designed that as the clamp is swung outwardits arms are spread and the clamp thus placed under tension which urgesits return into contact with the body `until it reaches a neutralpostion at approximately 45 to the body. Beyond this the clamp is biasedtoward a vertical position. Thev cam faces are so designed that in bothlimiting positions, the horizontal and vertical, the parts snap intofixed position and the tension on the clamp is relieved. The cooperatingfaces of the clamp and body are, of course, provided with means forgripping the clothlng of the wearer. This clip brooch has no separatespring and relies for its eiectiveness on the natural resiliency of theclamping member.

In order to assemble two of these clip brooches to form a pin brooch Iprovide a bar which extends across the backs of the clip broochcs whenthey are laid end to end and passes between the spaced bearings 0n eachbrooch. This bar is provided with holes which are alined with thejournal pins. When the clamps are swung downward into contact with thebody these journal pins, due to the design of the cam faces and theresilience of the clamps, are moved axially and pass into the holes onthe bar; thus the two clip brooches are held firmly altogether and forma single brooch which may be used in the ordinary manner. The ber is, ofcourse, pro vided with the usual safety pin.

In the accompanying drawing I have illusu trated a preferred embodimentof my invention. In the drawing, F igure il is a perspective view of theassembled. brooch; Figure 2 is a plan view'of the brooch when assembled;Figure 3 is an enlarged transverse section taken along line 3 3 ofFigure 2, illustrating the manner in which the journal pins are mountedand the manner in which they enter the holes in the common connectingbar; Figure 4 is a, detail showing the structure of the coacting camfaces, the journal pins being illustrated in retracted position; Figure5 is a. detail of the connecting bar and Figure 6 is a perspectivevicwfshowing the relation of the parts during assembly or disassemblyand before the connecting bar has been secured in place.

The clip brooch illustrated comprises a body 10 having a jeweled orotherwise decorated face 11. On the back, or reverse side, a. resilientU-shaped clamp 1i? is pivotally mounted in the following manner: Theends of the clamp are inturned and terminate in opposed coaxial journalpins 13 normally urged toward each other by the resiliency of the metalof which the clamp is made. These pins are journaled within bearings A-mounted upon the body and spaced apart. The outer face of each bearingis provided with a. cam face having four equi-snaced notches 15 and thecorresponding inner face of each inturned end of the clamp is providedwith a coacting cam face having four equi-spaced projections 16 designedto interlit with the notches 15 when the clamp is in either of itslimiting positions, horizontal verticals f we assume the parte in closedposition as illustrated in Figures l, 2 and with the clamp lying alongthe back of the body, the projections 16 lie within notches 15 and thejournal pins 13 extend toward euch other and almost abut. lVhen thebrooch opened to permit the insertion of a piece of clothing the clampis swung outward. This swinging movement causes the cam projections 16to ride up along the sloping side walls of the notches 15, thusspreading the arms of the clamp, retracting the pins 13 and placing theclamp under tension. lVhen the projections 16 have reached the dat outerface of the bearing the parts occupyT the position ill strated in FigureIl. Upon swinging the clamping member further upward projections 16again enter the notches but in e position removed 90 from the originelposition. Although the clamp is under tension.l

when the parts are in neutral posit on, as illustrated in Figure 4, itis moved i, vo horizontal and vertical positions by this tension onlywhen the projections 16 enter the notches 15. l

The lower face of the clamp is provided with two downwardly extendingpoints 17, and the body with 'two upwardly extending series of teeth 18both of which are designed to bite into the clothing and hold the broochfirmly in position.

The two clip brooches are assembled to form a single pin brooch in thefollowing manner: 'Die clamps 12 are moved into neutral position, asillustrated in Figures 4 and 6, in which position the pins 13 areretracted. A connectin bar 19 is thereupon laid across the backs cfg thetwo clip brooches, as illustrated in Figure 6. Each end of this bar isprovided with a. hook 2O which is inserted beneath a loop 21 on the bodyof each of the brooches and the two snap brooches swung into alinement,the bar passing between the two spaced bearings 14. Wlhcn the parts arein this position the clamps 12 are swung downward, this movement causingthe journal pins 13 to move axially toward each other and enter holesE22 in the bar. The parts are now firmly joined and the two clipbrooches converted into a single pin brooch. The bar is, of course,provided with the usual pin 23 provided with a safety catch 24. Todisassemble the parts, the operations just described are reversed, theclamps swung into neutral to retract the pins 13, and the bar 1S)removed.

The individual clip brooches of my invention are simple in constructionand use, have no separate springs to break, and are strong, durable andattractive. The two can be quickly and simply assembled to form a pinbrooch and as quickly and simply disassembled. No mechanical skill isrequired and no tools. Gnly one eXtra part is necessary-a lightconnecting bnr. Thus 'the inu convenience arising from loss of screwsand other arts is minimized and a neat, light and Graceful assembly`achieved.

i c aim:

1. In a clip brooch, the combination of a body, a clamp pivotallymounted thereon and cooperating with the body to clamp the clothing ofthe wearer, a pin carried by the clamp coaxial with the ivotal axis, abearing- 'foi' .eid pin carried 3y the body, and coacting cam faces onthe bearing and clamp whereby the pin is given an axial movement as theclamp is swung.

2. In a clip brooch., the combination of a body, a clamp pivotallymounted thereon by means of journal pins carried by the clamp, andcooperating with the body to clasp the clothing of the wearer, bearingsfor the plus carried by the body, and ting cam faces on the bearings andclamp whereby the pins are given an axial movement as the clamp is swuun a` clip brooch, the combination of a body, a U--shaped clamp pivotallymounted thereon by means of opposed journal pins and cooperating withthe body to clasp the clothing of the wearer, spaced bearings for thepins carried b the body and coacting cam faces on the earings and clampwherebyl7 the pins are moved axially away from eac other as the clamp isswung outward and toward each other as the clamp is swung toward thebody.

4. In a clip brooch, the combination of a body, a resilient U-shapedclampl pivotally mounted thereon by means of opposed journal pins andcooperating with the body to clasp the clothing of the wearer, spacedbearings for the pins carried by the body and coacting cam faces on thebearings and clamp whereby the pins are moved axially away from eachother as the clamp is swung outward and toward each other as the clampis swung toward the body, the cam faces spreading the arms of the clampas the latter is swung away from the body thereby putting the clampunder tension and urging its return. 5. A convertible brooch comprisinga plurality of juxtaposed units, a removable bar extending across thebacks of the units, a pin on each unit, means for passing the pinsthrough holes in the bar to hold it fixed relative to the units, andmeans on the bar for securing the combined elements to the clothing ofthe wearer.v l

6. A convertible brooch comprising a pair of clip brooches laid end toend, each clip broochcomprising a body, a clamp pivotally mountddlthereon and a journal pin carried by the? clam a removable barextending across the baclis of the brooches, means whereby thejjournalpins on the clip brooches are passed through holes in the bar to hold itfixed relative to the clip brooches, and means on the bar yfor securingthe combined elements to the ,clothing of the wearer.

7 "A convertible brooch comprising a plurality of clip brooches laid endto end, a resilient U-shaped clamp pivotally mounted on each clipbrooch, opposed journal pins carried yby each clamp, spaced bearings forthe pins; coacting' cam faces on the bearings and clamps whereby thepins are axially retracted as the clamp is swung outward, and caused tapproach each other as the clamp is swung toward the body/ia removablebar extending across the back of the broochesand between the spacedbearings, the bar having holes in alinement with the journal pinsthrough which these pins are passed to hold the bar in fixed relationtothe clip brooches, and a safety pin on the bar.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

osoAR HEYIAN.

